Something that is slapped together. So its being put together by people right there. I dont get the sense that this is being imported. To the extent that im wrong that this is something more sophisticated my sense is this has happened some time ago. Once the oil is refined you have testified that the assad regime is purchasing some of the oil. Some of it is being smuggled into the southern regions of turkey where you said the price of gasoline is higher than we would expect here. If you are purchasing barrels of oil at 30 or so a barrel you have reason to know this may be illicit oil. Are we doing enough as treasury of the United States to determine who the middle men are that are purchasing oil at 30 a barrel and make sure we are following that money into what accounts . That is exactly what they are doing, identifying the middle men. That is what i discussed more explicitly in my testimony. There is also a significant more diplomatic push to get the turks to do more in southern turke
We cant hear you. Here it comes. Yeah, for each question identify the organization. Hello. Identify yourself and your position. Im a humble tax reporter and analyst. There three of us. Im not an expert about Social Security, but my understanding is that surpluses of the program for a given year invest in a trust fund and treasury bonds. They have a low yield. There was a plan to privatize Social Security. It would seem to me that having a slightly more normal its endless. For example, raisings and eliminating the tax cap. We had to pick and choose which to include. Especially in the trade off, we collected only 12 of what is commonly proposed for Social Security. So we did not test the options that would invest the money differently. That would be a great question to ask. Yes . A microphone over here. Im hannah weinberger. I have a methodology question. How did you get people to Pay Attention to these Detailed Survey questions that i was looking in the report and it looks like it took
I think breaking down those boundaries between different parts of government is very much something that weve seen and its translated into legislative action as well. Asset freezing recall, legislation that many countries have adopted. So a holding measure. E. U. Has done that. Switzerland has done that. Just after arab spring. A list of these persons, freeze their assets now. It is not a judicial freeze in the context of judicial action. It is an administrative freeze giving the countries time to prepare their judicial action. I think that sort of innovative legislation is happening. The civil forfeiture legislation that i think in america has been around for a very long time but in many other countries is still relatively new. You see that i wouldnt say proliferating but you see countries taking up those sort of legislations, so what we call nonconviction based legislation where you connect the asset to a crime. Typically on the balance of probabilities. Wont go into too many details
More children. People ask why the Utah Attorney general went to colombia. My reply number one, because such a High Percentage of those traveling abroad for sex parties are american. Some statistics suggest 80 or more of sex tourists may be american. Im embarrassed by that fact. That americans provide such demand. And i feel a responsible for remedy the scourge that my fellow countrymen have helped to create. Secondly, helping stop Human Trafficking no matter where it exists is vitally important. And to be clear, no state funds were used. I was not going down in my official capacity as the attorney general of utah in fact, nobody knew except for our closest Law Enforcement partners. Three, and i think this is critical to this discussion creating a firewall in countries like colombia and the many other countries that o. U. R. And other organizations like them have established to prevent future victor raxes from entering the shores of the United States and my state of utah. Through the co
All of that and more on thursday the first of may. Good evening, everyone, and welcome, im tyler mathisen, susie gharib is on assignment. Well, you know it has been five years since the official end of the great recession, and even though the economy, the stock market and the Housing Market have made tremendous gains more than 10 million americans who want to working still without a job. Today, there were no records set owner wall street as a lot of investors seem to be in a Holding Pattern waiting for tomorrows april jobs report. Possibly the most important metric on the health of the u. S. Economy. Hampton pearson with more on what may be in fridays nonfarm payroll and why some economists are more cautious than others. Reporter optimism for a friday jobs report above 200,000 in april comes on the heels of the mixed Economic Data in the last twori n3n3 qs o i think well find out that momentum is pretty good here. But unemployment claims rose since late february, mixed news for an eco